Posts by HomerJau

I bought a ASUS NUC 14 Pro i7 recently (for s/w development on the road) running Windows 11 Pro and the Ethernet failed after I updated drivers etc. WiFi was good.

The fix was to update to latest NUC 14 bios.

I’m going to take a guess as to why it’s not the default.

CEC had many issues in my experience early on. But recently I’ve found CEC behaves well with more modern gear. Maybe CEC should be enabled as default now?

Is there anyway to set an ‘Auto’ time zone so it’s found off the internet?

I’m proving about 40 x 2nd hand refurbished Intel NUCs with LE (at cost, no profit ) and customised skin for surround/spatial music for a website I moderate in US. Most are going to US members but I have some going to EU and UK. I have a half dozen users here in Australia on top of that, but I can set the time zones here.

We are cloning a NVME SSD image onto 40 new NVME SSD 500GB drives, the wonderful thing about Linux is it just boots to LE fully setup. Users just need to set their media sources and scan. All done!

Lots of new LE/Kodi users joining our group soon!

Thanks to all the dedicated devs here and on the Kodi team. Awesome work.

I should add I’ll upload the disc image I’m using if anyone here wants it to load a fully set up NUC, it needs to be applied to a new install as it will wipe an existing disc.

Quote from jbinkley60

I've been watching this thread for a long time and have had an Intel NUC (8i7BEK)

I back catching up on progress as I just bought another Alder Lake NUC.

The previous one has the software ‘fix’ to limit output to 10bit. Does using the Thunderbolt port fix the audio glitch on Alder Lake?

I had (and still have) a couple of NUC8s but I don’t recall having any Audio dropouts after updating the HDMI firmware on those. Maybe I’m wrong… (I have Denon AVRs)

Kodi 12 updated in Jan 1 nightly. (Tagged albums in MKA with chapters from BDA disc now import into Kodi’s music library)

No new Kodi 21 builds added since last month. Those LE 13 nightlies don’t have new Kodi 21 builds, they use Kodi 22.

There’s been some recent Kodi 21 Omega merges I’d like to test in LE12 Generic x64.

Could someone update 12 nightlies to latest Kodi 12 build please?

THX

They work for me on 24H2. Check ‘Remember my credentials’. No need to worry about it again.

You use the SMB credentials entered in your LibreElec Settings on your device (Kodi settings UI) into the Windows dialog.

I’m sure I read a recent Linux version (6.10 or maybe 6.9) add Meteor Lake support. So don’t use LE12 (only Linux 6.6).

Reset your AVR. My old Denon AVR-X7200W would not recognise DTS or Atmos, multichannel pcm etc over HDMI (stuck on ‘stereo’) about once every 18 months or so. A hard Reset would fix it.

The above was using various LibreElec builds on Intel NUCs. The AVR reset ‘fix’ was needed over about 6 years. I’ve not had any such issue using my new Denon 4800H but it’s happened on another Denon (AVR X3400H) I use in another room once in 6 years (Intel NUC/LibreElec).

In that 6 year period it been NUC5, NUC8 (I’m now using NUC11TNK and NUC12SWH LE12 and still have 2 x NUC8 for test builds)

Try setting output to HDMI not Display Port

Quote from chewitt

I've submitted this to merge support for LE13: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/9101

It can probably be backported to LE12 too .. but I'm being lazy this morning.

Could you please submit a merge request for LE12 branch?

Thanks!

NUC5 cannot decode HEVC via hardware and cannot do HDR:

https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/intel-x86-64-generic

My LE12 crash issues solved. Solution: Do not use Grab Fanart addon in LE12

I tried to get crash logs on two NUCs but none existed. The other logs show nothing abnormal prior to crashes.

However, I did notice entries from the GrabFanart addon script just before the crash. I did a search to see if anyone reported issues with that addon and there is a memory leak in recent Python releases due to unsupported code:

Module "imp" deprecated since Python 3.12 · Issue #12 · robweber/script.grab.fanart

Since Python 3.12 the module "imp" is deprecated. Now I'm getting this error: 2024-06-05 09:03:19.624 T:1543846 error : EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException)…

github.com

BTW: LE12 crashing with memory full was reported on the Kodi forum, no solution was reported.

I then deleted Grab Fanart from two NUCs and ran the two movies that crashed last night on each NUC. They both played their complete movie to end with no crashes.

This also explains why CoreElec Kodi 21 runs (I didn’t install Grab Fanart addon) and LE11 uses an older Python version so Grab Fanart runs without its memory leak above.

But same network works with LE11 and CoreElec with Kodi 21 without issues. All 3 of my NUCs using LE12 crash.

I’m running a Kodi debug session now using my NUC8 LE12.

Update: Two different NUCs with latest LE12 both crash playing different movies after around 30 minutes or so.

I’ll create logs tomorrow and upload them.

chewitt Thanks for your reply. I now have solved my Intel NUC issues today with latest nightly and changing my NFS chunk size and Cache settings. I discovered the cache settings don’t seem to be applied until LibreElec is restarted.

With NFS and Cache chunk = 128kb, NFS set to v4 and cache size = 192MB I no longer get crashes when playing media or scanning my media into the music library. My NUC11pro with NVME SSD shows CPU at > 200% during the scan with debug enabled which I’ve never seen previously (my network is 2.5GBE, NUC - switch - NAS)